Monthly Report - Septembre 2019

Only one game played this month, but a great one !

• Won : -
• Free : Endless Space
• From bundles/gifts/sales : -

• SteamWorld Heist
  

  49 hours playtime

  35 of 47 achievements

SteamWorld Heist - beaten

This will be short : this game is awesome. Very fun, interesting to replay in NG+, challenging but not too hard. The gun play is fun and satisfying, and you’re really happy when you succeed a tricky shot or when you manage to kill multiple enemies with one bullet and a lot of wall bouncing !
The characters are different enough to allow a new completely different new playthrough, the visuals are great.
I didn’t encounter any bug, when you miss a shot it is your own fault.
On the difficulty side, normal is slightly challenging but not too much, it is a good difficulty for a start, and elite is scary (especially for the first few level, which are VERY hard, as you don’t have any skill or good weapon), but becomes manageable after the first half of Act 1. And for my elite NG+ playthrough I discovered that quitting & reloading the game resets the turn, and at this difficulty this is pretty much mandatory to use it, in case you missed an important shot and failed your positioning. You cannot afford that kind of mistake ! Especially because I was aiming for the “Higher that the sun” achievement which require to finish the game in elite without failing any level and with a turn limit. So I used that a lot :).
My only issue with the game are the weapons : most of the weapons are useless, as they are not precise enough to do any significant damage, or are too dangerous as they can hurt your own characters (grenade launcher, shotgun, SMG…). In this game (especially in elite mode), you cannot afford to not kill an enemy with each shot. They could be fun in easy mode, but not a good idea to use when the difficulty is there… So I exclusively use precise and powerful weapons. And you constantly upgrade your weapons so this is nice. But the items that you can equip are usually quite fun (even if, again, in elite you exclusively choose +damage and +movement items).
And there are a lot of rare items and weapons so even replaying old levels can give you new and fun loot !
Achievements : Around half of them are unlocked just by playing. The hats achievements will probably be the most annoying ones are the rare hats are VERY rare. Right now I’ve playing around 6-7 hours just looking for rare hats. As mentioned “Higher that the sun” is a challenging achievement to get, but using the Quit & Reload trick it is doable. You just have to be very very careful on the first few levels which are way harder than any later levels.
I didn’t complete the game as there are several achievements linked to the DLC but I’ll definitively get it on next sale, so I’m sure I’ll complete the game at some point !